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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

guinevere

/ˈɡwɪ.nə.vɪɹ/

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What does guinevere mean?

proper noun

  1. A female given name from Welsh or Proto-Celtic.
  2. The wife of King Arthur.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɡwɪ.nə.vɪɹ/

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Suppose this robe should betray her by changing colour, as her robe had betrayed Queen Guinevere.
Thomas HardyTess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure WomanProject Gutenberg ebook #110
So I may answer thee with one as old, that was a woman when Queen Guinevere of Britain was a little wench, as touching the hit it.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
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Diana and Jane and Ruby only waited long enough to see it caught in the current and headed for the bridge before scampering up through the woods, across the road, and down to the lower headland where, as Lancelot and Guinevere and the King, they were to be in readiness to receive the lily maid.
L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryAnne of Green GablesProject Gutenberg ebook #45
Queen Guinevere wore grass green silk, and if her skirt were as long as those worn by Matilda of Flanders, Norman William's wife, centuries after, her women must have spent several hours daily in mending it, unless she had a new habit for every ride, or unless the English forest roads were wider than they are to-day.
G., Miss HamlinIn the Riding-School; Chats with EsmeraldaProject Gutenberg ebook #10539